skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google will not make contributions from its political action committee this cycle to any member of Congress who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election, following the deadly Capitol riot.

The full sentence in the article is ambiguous in this regard, as it depends on what clause the subordinate "following the deadly Capitol riot" is specifically referring to.

Does it mean this?

> Google will not make contributions from its political action committee this cycle to any member of Congress who, [following the deadly Capitol riot,] voted against certifying the results of the presidential election.

Or this?

> [Following the deadly Capitol riot,] Google will not make contributions from its political action committee this cycle to any member of Congress who voted against certifying the results of the presidential election.
It sounds like you are trying to point out how both sides in a two party system have similar characteristics. Unluckily for you, in the areas you are comparing both parties, I am able to find minute differences between the actions of the parties and claim that these differences are enough to negate your original comparison of said political parties.

All political discussions are the same.
> No rule requires him to confiscate the lunch of lorry drivers and then say "Welcome to Brexit"

Actually, a rule does require him to confiscate any meat product that someone might try to bring into the EU [1] (incidentally I believe that the USA have the same rule), which is what happened: It was a ham sandwich.

If you watch the video the driver was very surprised. Personally I took the customs guy's reply "welcome to Brexit" as a humorous but factual and to the point explanation.

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/carry/meat-dair....
Because the objective is not to get people to believe the truth, it’s to get them to agree with your views. A cursory glance at the “top media sources” of the day should make this obvious.

All news is propaganda, in the original sense of the word, I.e. propagate.
> What are the odds that a company like Shell would make the the decision that benefits society and prioritizes the EV business over their fossil fuel business?

As certain as anything in business in the UK, since the UK government has a timeline to ban the sale of new fossil fuel powered vehicles, and no such plan to ban EVs.
This doesn't really need to be hypothetical. There are plenty of contemporary and recent examples of countries experiencing collapse: Syria + Libya in the 2010s, Yemen now, etc.
There are such measurement devices: wavefront aberrometers

There are also corresponding glasses, but no smart glasses
Hillary is asking for a 2016 election investigation.

She also said this summer Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstance.

There's dirt everywhere if you look for it.
To answer the question: no.

OpenStreetMap is constantly evolving in many dimensions. A fully fledged editor requires a significant investment to remain current (think at least one FTE).
Following that review, the NetPAC board has decided that it will not be making any contributions this cycle to any member of Congress who voted against certification of the election results

This is kinda milquetoast. It says nothing about Google's board's personal contributions. It also seems like they're only talking about direct contributions to candidates, and nothing about contributions to other (super)PACs that support them.
Not just SV. Many historical cycles are lining up negative extremes on the 2020-2030 decade; unfortunately I think we are only seeing the beginnings of the crisis.
The linked piece about the use of network partitioning to hamper supercookies is worth a read.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...

It's too bad that we'll have to trade off browser efficiency for privacy.
This is about doing it programmatically. As in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619947
By “capability for federation,” do you mean something more than what FidoNet allowed?
Releases happen monthly, often this late in the month:

80 was on the 25th
79 was on the 28th
78 was on the 30th
Supercookie protection! Thank you Mozilla team, the changes and focus you've made to protect user privacy in recent years has really been appreciated!

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...
I watched the movie. It highlighted to me how over the top the effort was, when I previously did not appreciate how exotic and ridiculous the killing actually was. No wonder the Saudis did not like this movie.
Your links do not demonstrate that they "care", nor do they even show it is "complicated". I have been following the Signal project since well before it was even called Signal, I talk with a lot of Signal advocates at the events where I speak, and I have spent lots of time digging through issue trackers and conference proceedings to get some concept of what goes on in the mind of a Signal developer (particularly Moxie, who has made himself the enemy of decentralized systems and even open source clients): they seem to only be doing this--and lazily to boot--because people are upset about it, not because they believe in the use case; they are extremely opinionated in their specific model of chat and generally insist that using phone numbers was necessary in order for network effect to work (along with commensurate defenses of all of the privacy SNAFUs related to it, some of which they have attempted to address, but half-heartedly). Put another way: you don't spend so many years shitting on an idea and claiming it would be actively harmful to your cause just to eventually say "ok, fine: we're working on it" without any explanation that "we made a mistake and hope the community can forgive our prior misunderstanding here" if you actually "care" about something.
I think a PWA mode is useful in all cases on all devices. But most of users use my program on desktops.
Reading that link.. and no they didn't, they filed objections. It only went to a vote once in 2004, and Barbra Boxer was the only one in the Senate that voted to reject Ohio's electoral vote count, and she's retired now.
Your comment reminds me of a series of concepts that I've discovered while going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole of protestant theology:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonomy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism

Some of this stuff makes the blood curdle. If it was spewed by some guy in a turban the US would probably have had him killed with robots from the sky by now...
I don’t think it’s just over oil. Saudi Arabia is also considered strategically important as an outpost against Iran. I went to Google Iran and this was the top hit [1]. The timing of these two stories is very interesting.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-exploring-...
Many schools of philosophy would disagree... those that western civilizations are built on, for example.
The situation is different. Objections in 2000 (in particular) were not about the overall result of the election, but complaints about long lines and voting access not being good enough and shining a light on changing things in order to get more voting accessibility. 2020 was about tossing out legitimate votes results in states that people didn't like the overall results of. Note that none of the re-elected candidates in the states in 2020 were saying their election was in any way invalid despite how much shade they were throwing on the entire system.
That's what Bitcoin is, essentially.
I'm happy for this founder's success and wish them the best. However, there are no "learnings" in this article at all. It's just a promotional piece from Google for this program. It even ends with a CTA to join the program.
There are probably lots of families that don't repair at all.
She died in 2008, so the question is moot anyways.
Yup, I am sure you put all data from coworkers or business partners on a completely isolated and safe system first, too. Even if the premise is to work on an ongoing project of yours. Sure.
Reddit traders wage battle against Wall Street
Hardware Is Hard
The individual members of Congress voted based on the president's actions.

> there were Democrats in Congress who voted against certifying the election results

Right, and one of them was a two hour debate.

You'd be gullible enough compare that to not supporting a campaign of bad-faith lawsuits across states that were clearly not based in voter fraud (and usually dismissed as a result). The most specific thing they have in common is "members of Congress voted."
Good points. You're right inasmuch that leaks are not agnostic. They can happen unwillingly or willingly, and whom they help or hurt is going to depend on the weighing up of the overall damage/reward.
I know it's not productive but this was the kind of comment I was expecting to read, thank you.

I would like to know the oldest code libraries to be reused in 'large scale' tho.
> If Iran is our enemy, then Saudi Arabia is our friend

Why is this?
Not sure, but I think he is referring to a programmatic API for doing it (e.g. so he can give users a "click here to copy image" button).
An army of amateur traders has launched a siege on Wall Street that has shaken up markets and left seasoned hedge funds reeling.

This new legion of day traders, equipped with free trading platforms, spare cash, and boredom, has set its sights on a growing list of US-listed companies over the past several weeks.

GameStop, a games retailer whose shares have been sent flying by gangs of traders co-ordinating moves on Reddit, sits at ground zero of a battle that has shown these have-a-go investors are no longer just a sideshow.

The impact is now spreading to other stocks and tripping up sophisticated hedge funds that take pride in their superior skills at navigating markets. Alarm bells are ringing among investors and former Wall Street regulators who see worrying parallels to the pump-and-dump schemes that proliferated in the dotcom era.

“The people who get hurt on these things . . . are the people who buy at pumped-up prices thinking they’re on a rocket ship ride upward and in fact that rocket ship is going to crash,” said Steve Cutler, a partner Simpson Thacher and former enforcement chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I’ve heard that it might be for anti trust reasons (but with putting Facebook on all of its properties). Properly establishing who owns what up front makes the average user more aware of the consolidation of platforms
Do you happen to live in an apartment building? In my case, pollution from the downstairs neighbors would affect my apartment. Especially cigarette smoke, which my neighbor only smokes indoor in the morning.

Cooking breakfast is also a huge source of pollutants.
I'd add some credentials to the landing page so people take you seriously. When you have copy like "I liken it to friends coming together...", my first question is who is "I"? Do they have any chance of pulling this off?
Oregon Republican Party falsely calls U.S. Capitol riot a ‘false flag’
Most programmers (myself included) are incapable of doing even the most basic things without googling them. We need an offline storage of StackExchange and it's subdomains.
I know one way to not support a company.
It's a big leap from "makes a request" to "provides tracking data". One doesn't necessary mean the other. It's even bigger leap to say that it's done in violation of stated privacy policies.

For example, requests for software update have to go to Mozilla, but don't have any personal information, and are legitimately necessary.
> The temptation to increase margins is high no matter what.

yep, I remember when cable tv was ad-free (because who would've dreamt people would be ok with paying a subscription fee while still getting ads shoved down their throat?)
> What you are suggesting is a one-sided market where prices can only go up and there is no restoring force.

Aren't there other ways to take a short position on a stock without actually short selling it? Like buying a put option?
Do you actually believe that the members of the House had an expectation of reversing the election? There were only 170 or so of them. And it’s not as if these individual members of Congress were involved in the riot, breakdown of law and order, “insurrection”, or takeover of the capitol.
The site is struggling.
There were no objections entertained during 2000 election certification. Or at least, there was no sponsor in the senate, so no vote was taken.
I think I understand where you are coming from, I have never changed a laptop's battery even when it was common for them to be replaceable. I have never upgraded a computer component. I have never flashed custom OS to my old smartphone. Mostly because by the time the need arises, the device is too old/slow, etc.

Though the problem is that the issues of unrepairability are moving into high cost professional equipment. Consumers maybe are not willing to repair themselves or pay for repair, because indeed the consumer level devices are relatively cheap and labour is expensive, though it may not be the case on professional equipment or devices.

Your 1000$ professional printer's head dried with ink? Buy whole new printer.

Error from your's 500 000$ tractor's ECU - only a dealer can fix this, which may take months, but you have a one week window for harvesting.

A <cheap device> broke on your car. It costs 50$ in your nearest salvage yard, but you __must__ flash a firmware to match your exact car at dealer for 500$, because only dealers can do it.

This whole "efficiency of industralization" will start to fall apart when industries will start blocking other industries. Farming is super efficient these days - couple of guys with couple of tractors or other farming equipment, will harvest enough food in a week that will eventually feed hundreds of thousands of people. If their super efficient tractor equipment will fail during tight windows of harvest and their equipment provider will say "fuck you" - that whole harvest can be spoiled.
Years before Reddit’s founding, day traders swapped stock tips on sites like RagingBull.com and Silicon Investor. One online tipster, known as Tokyo Joe, became so popular he started a website, drawing thousands of paying subscribers. He ultimately drew the scrutiny of securities regulators in the dotcom boom, and agreed to pay $755,000 to settle a regulatory suit.

Market watchers see similarities to that era now. Shares in GameStop surged 145 per cent to their peak on Monday, after a dizzying rally on Friday, as users on Reddit declared the company and another suddenly loved stock — BlackBerry — were going “to the f**ing moon”. In the frenzied GameStop trading, Redditors had a clear goal in addition to simply jacking up their favoured bet: they wanted to flush out two hedge funds that were running negative bets on the stock.

Their persistence prompted a rescue package for one of those funds on Monday, as Citadel and Point72 Asset Management agreed to pump $2.75bn into Melvin Capital — a fund targeted on Reddit for several months. The founder of the other — noted short seller Andrew Left of Citron Research — last week backed away from any further comment on GameStop, saying his views had drawn online abuse by a “mob”.

“These are not idiosyncratic events,” said Andrew Slimmon, portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. “It is a reflection of the fact that you have a growing cohort of people moving the market. I would be very careful shorting [certain] companies because the liquidity is there and flowing.”

Analysts note that Americans are likely to receive $1,400 government stimulus cheques in March, some of which could find its way into stocks.

The coarsely jocular Reddit postings, many from users whose names are too impolite to print, are likely to draw the attention of regulators in Washington even if the cases prove difficult to bring, former Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement officials said.
I'm Christian, and I believe in evolution, the big bang, old earth.. They're not contradictory. There are actually a lot of Christians who believe in those things. CS Lewis believed in an old earth while also believing in God.

I usually try avoid religious debates on HN though.
You don't need ai for that.

Can't find the link, but there are a few projects doing just that.
What? No. 2000 is the opposite: https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-elect...

> The results: The two major conclusions here are that Gore likely would have won a hand recount of the statewide overvotes and undervotes – which he never requested – while Bush likely would have won the hand recount of undervotes ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, although by a smaller margin than the certified 537 vote difference.

Counting over votes would have been utterly ridiculous. It would have election officials try to divine who someone intended to vote for where they punched holes for more than one candidate.

Gore’s whole recount strategy was Bayesian bullshit. Back then, 1-2% of all votes on these punchcard machines were uncountable. Hand recounts will turn up a bunch more votes, creating a poll of votes that can skew them to your advantage through selective recounts that take advantage of different base rates (favoring Bush or Gore) in different precincts. Gore’s original gambit was to request a recount only in counties that had heavily favored him to begin with. Obviously that would result in newly countable votes skewing in his favor at the base rate of the county. But even he never asked for a recount of over votes.

The whole 2000 recount was a shocking parade of innumeracy. The Florida precincts were doing things like including partial recounts in the results. We know from the 2020 election why this would be nutty. Imagine Georgia starting a statewide hand recount, stopping halfway through because they ran out of time, and updating the results with partial data that excluded a bunch of absentee votes, or Fulton county.
resubmit from days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25873949
We recently published a comparison of learned indexes (including RadixSpline and the PGM index posted yesterday)in VLDB: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1-marcus.pdf
John Stark, a lecturer at Duke Law who previously led the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, said the commission staff would probably investigate whether Reddit users were making false or misleading statements to woo other investors into a stock.

“There’s a whole group of investors who really don’t care about the inherent value of a company,” he said. “They just care if there’s someone else who will pay a higher price.”

The SEC is also likely to investigate whether users are being paid for their recommendations by companies or other organisations seeking to move a stock. Any investigation could take months — or longer — involving subpoenas of user IP addresses and broker trading records, Mr Cutler said.

The commission can also intervene sooner if it sees egregious market moves or suspects manipulation by suspending trading in a stock or by seeking temporary relief through the courts. Mr Cutler noted, though, that suspensions were often unpopular because it left investors who had jumped into the stock stuck in the shares.

The SEC declined to comment.

Options are central to retail investors’ success in moving markets, with the use of the instruments that let traders bet on the direction of stock prices being amplified by no-commission websites such as Robinhood. In aggregate, this has forced big brokers to buy stocks to hedge their own risks, helping supercharge the influence of day traders who typically have much less financial firepower than their established Wall Street rivals.
Literally nobody in the modern world is advocating for the "complete extermination of complete groups of people based on skin colour" with the possible exception of China in Xinjiang (although I guess that's based on religion rather than race). If they were, you would be right to identify them and call them racist.

The way these terms are actually used in 2021 has nothing to do with the classical definitions. Rather, Twitter warriors describe anyone who votes for Trump as a racist Nazi. The terms have become unmoored from their original definitions. And as a German I am sure you're aware that this problem of redefinition happens there too.

Here in Germany that's not the most sacred thing, do you know what the article 1 of the german basic law is? "Human dignity shall be inviolable."

German law is crap then. That statement is vacuous, means nothing and can be interpreted in whatever way the government wishes to whatever end the government wants. The US First Amendment is vastly superior and I'm not even American: it is crisp, fairly specific and applies to a very small group of people (Congress).

As for not a dystopian racist hellhole, no, Germany isn't. Neither is the USA, so using Germany to try and make a point about free speech doesn't seem very relevant. China is such a place, if the reports of concentration camps for Muslims in the west are true, and they also have no free speech. So the correlation between free speech and being non racist seems pretty good.
That is definitely not what the world saw. The world saw an attempted coup. A group of people forcing themselves into the capitol building, seemingly helped by law enforcement and security. They saw these folks were inspired by Trump's words and actions. They saw the folks breaking windows in a capitol building with lawmakers present have less force than folks marching in streets.

American news sources have tended to be more lenient with the wording and description of it all, especially at first.
It's about programmatic access to clipboard, like selecting a part of image in a browser-based image editor (likely a canvas), and copy-pasting it into some other application.
This promise of cutting taxes to stimulate growth has been one of the most repeated lies since the 1980s which has destroyed the progressive tax code we had and led to ever greater inequality, which in turn has our society careening towards instability.
Chris Murphy, co-head of derivatives strategy at Susquehanna International Group, said rising prices of other heavily-shorted stocks showed that this activity was spreading around the US stock market. The 50 stocks most frequently shorted by hedge funds have outperformed the S&P 500 so far this year, according to Goldman Sachs.

“If you’re an institution and you’re short some stocks, you may look at the GameStop situation and think it is not worth the risk, and cover your position,” Mr Murphy said. “And then you have shorts being covered everywhere.”

Analysts across Wall Street updated institutional clients including pension funds and hedge funds on Monday with lists of stocks they believed could face the same storm as GameStop and BlackBerry.

“You used to have a world where everyone was watching [CNBC presenter] Jim Cramer on TV and he would talk about something and [the stock] would go crazy,” said a trader at a large broker in New York, who requested anonymity. “You are now in a world where it is coming from a lot of social media platforms. In many ways, it is a lot more democratised . . . [but] it is more difficult to understand how much of it is real.”

Additional reporting by Patrick Temple-West and Robin Wigglesworth
If you respond to a power grab by competing over who can surrender the fastest, what do you expect to happen?
Instagram pictures don't show up on Twitter because Facebook blocked it. They did that in response to Twitter blocking Instagram from finding contacts via Twitter. Its FAANG in-fighting from like 8 years ago that I'm still kind of surprised hasn't been sorted out by now.
Good point. That seems like a "soft-shutdown" compared to the "hard-shutdown" that I interpreted from the parent post: dying due to being unfit in the environment.